what exactly is a celeron? (upgrading)

[josemavicente]

ive been thinking of upgrading my celeron 633mhz but i dont know whether i should just wait a few months more. dont get me wrong -- it performs just fine but what i really wanted to know is where does the celeron lie exactly? whenever i check my system info, i always get info that my processor is either a PII or a PIII depending on different diagnostics...

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Jayvee Fernandez
"Structure is the function of logic."

[Gallaeglagh]

A Celeron is an Intel processor that is generally a step or two behind the Pentium. Usually it has a smaller or fewer caches.

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When in doubt search on Google

[JadedC36]

Jose;
The original Celeron was the PII core without L2 cache, then went through some changes to add 128K L2 cache, to the PIII core with the same L2 cache. Most of them run on a 66MHz front side bus, and have recently been issued that run on the 100MHz FSB. They still only have the 128K L2 cache. I think that from 800 MHz on up to 1GHz Celeron's are 100 fsb's. Remember that the PII, and the PIII, are actually the same, but the PIII has additional SSE instructions included (more transistors).

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Mike

[This message has been edited by JadedC36 (edited 01-10-2002).]

[Hobit]

Jose,

It would really be useful to know what motherboard you have?

hobit

[Hobit]

Jose,

What's the make & model of your motherboard?

hobit

[wodluck]

Any Celeron 850Mhz and above are 100FSB, a celeron is basically a PII or
PIII with 1/2 the L2 cache. The newer ones (1.2 & above) have the full 256
L2 cache. What MoBo???????????????

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woody